Reading Homer’s The Iliad in 21st Century

Mafruha Ferdous

Abstract


Homer's Iliad refers to an epic story written by the ancient Greek poet Homer, which makes an account of the most significant events that earmarked the very last days which defined the Trojan War and the Greek siege of the city of Troy. Troy was also known as Ilium, Ilion, or Ilois in the past. Having made to center around the events of the Trojan War, Homer’s Iliad is a work of art that paints to all of us interested in literature, what really happened in the past. The paper purposes to provide invaluable insights regarding the significance of Homer’s Iliad today and what it teaches us about poetry and the ancient culture of the Greeks.


Keywords


Homer, Iliad, Greece

Full Text:

PDF

References


Arthur, Michael B., and Denise M. Rousseau. "A career lexicon for the 21st century." The Academy of Management Executive 10.4 (1996): 28-39.

FAUL, DENIS, and Maureen Alden. "HOMER BESIDE HIMSELF: Para-Narratives in the Iliad." (2002): 252-253.

Hernandez, Pura Nieto. "Reading Homer in the 21st century." College Literature 34.2 (2007): 29-54.

Jenkins, Henry, et al. Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century. Mit Press, 2009.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Bruce R. Powers. The global village: Transformations in world life and media in the 21st century. Oxford University Press, USA, 1989.

Singer, Peter Warren. Wired for war: The robotics revolution and conflict in the 21st century. Penguin, 2009.

Wells, Gordon, and Guy Claxton, eds. Learning for life in the 21st century: Sociocultural perspectives on the future of education. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.2p.101

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Bookmark and Share


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

2010-2023 (CC-BY) Australian International Academic Centre PTY.LTD.

Advances in Language and Literary Studies

You may require to add the 'aiac.org.au' domain to your e-mail 'safe list’ If you do not receive e-mail in your 'inbox'. Otherwise, you may check your 'Spam mail' or 'junk mail' folders.